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| Editor in Chief | Amy Bernstein |
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| Former editors | Adi Ignatius, Thomas A. Stewart |
| Categories | Business |
| Frequency | 6 times per year |
| Circulation | 343,321 |
| Publisher | Sarah McConville |
| Founded | 1922; 103 years ago (1922) |
| First issue | October 1922 |
| Company | Harvard Business Publishing |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | hbr |
| ISSN | 0017-8012 |
Harvard Business Review (HBR)[1][2] is a generalmanagementmagazine[3][4] published byHarvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate ofHarvard Business School.HBR is published six times a year[1] and is headquartered inBrighton, Massachusetts.
HBR covers a wide range of topics that are relevant to various industries, management functions, and geographic locations. These include leadership, negotiation, strategy, operations, marketing, and finance.[5]
Harvard Business Review has published articles byClayton Christensen,Peter F. Drucker,Justin Fox,Michael E. Porter,Rosabeth Moss Kanter,John Hagel III,Thomas H. Davenport,Gary Hamel,C. K. Prahalad,Vijay Govindarajan,Robert S. Kaplan,Rita Gunther McGrath and others.[6][7] Several management concepts and business terms were first given prominence inHBR.
Harvard Business Review's worldwide English-language circulation is 250,000. HBR licenses its content for publication in nine international editions.[8]
Harvard Business Review began in 1922[4] as a magazine forHarvard Business School. Founded under the auspices of Dean Wallace Donham,HBR was meant to be more than just a typical school publication. "The paper [HBR] is intended to be the highest type of business journal that we can make it, and for use by the student and the business man. It is not a school paper," Donham wrote. Initially,HBR's focus was onmacroeconomic trends, as well as on important developments within specific industries.
FollowingWorld War II,HBR emphasized the cutting-edge management techniques that were developed in largecorporations, such asGeneral Motors, during that time. Over the next three decades, the magazine continued to refine its focus on general management issues that affect business leaders, billing itself as the "magazine for decision makers". Prominent articles published during this period include "Marketing Myopia" byTheodore Levitt and "Barriers and Gateways to Communication" byCarl R. Rogers and Fritz J. Roethlisberger.
In the 1980s, Theodore Levitt became the editor ofHarvard Business Review and changed the magazine to make it more accessible to general audiences. Articles were shortened and the scope of the magazine was expanded to include a wider range of topics. In 1994, Harvard Business School formed Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) as an independent entity.
In 2002, a management and editorial staff shakeup occurred at the publication after the revelation of an affair between editor-in-chiefSuzy Wetlaufer and former General Electric CEOJack Welch. The two met when Wetlaufer was interviewing Welch while researching an article for the magazine.[9] Two seniorHarvard Business Review editors left, citing an unfair office climate and complaining that the affair had broken ethical standards. Shortly after the resignations, Wetlaufer resigned on March 8, 2002 amid further rebuke by remaining staff.[10] Three months later, the publisher, Penelope Muse Abernathy, was also forced out.[11]
Between 2006 and 2008, HBP went through several reorganizations but finally settled into the three market-facing groups that exist today: Higher Education, which distributes cases, articles, and book chapters for business education materials; Corporate Learning, which provides standardized on-line and tailored off-line leadership development courses; and Harvard Business Review Group, which publishesHarvard Business Review magazine and its web counterpart (HBR.org), and publishes books (Harvard Business Review Press).
In 2009,HBR brought onAdi Ignatius, the former deputy managing editor ofTime magazine, to be itseditor-in-chief.[12] Ignatius oversees all editorial operations for Harvard Business Review Group. At the time that Ignatius was hired, the United States was going through aneconomic recession, butHBR was not covering the topic. "The world was desperate for new approaches. Business-as-usual was not a credible response," Ignatius has recalled. During this period the frequency ofHBR switched from ten times per year to six times per year.[13]
As a result, Ignatius realignedHBR's focus and goals to make sure that it "delivers information in thezeitgeist that our readers are living in."HBR continues to emphasize research-based, academic pieces that would help readers improve their companies and further their careers, but it broadened its audience and improved reach and impact by including more contemporary topics.
As part of the redesigned magazine, Ignatius also led the charge to integrate the print and digital divisions more closely, and gave each edition ofHBR a distinct theme and personality, as opposed to being a collection of academically superlative, yet mostly unrelated articles.
HBR won the2020 Webby Award for Business Blog/Website in the category Web.[14]
In 2025,HBR launched HBR Executive, a subscription for senior leaders.[15]
Since 1959, the magazine's annualMcKinsey Award[16] has recognized the two most significantHarvard Business Review articles published each year, as determined by a group of highly independent judges. Past winners have included Peter F. Drucker,[6] who was honored seven times; Clayton M. Christensen; Theodore Levitt; Michael Porter;Rosabeth Moss Kanter; John Hagel III; andC. K. Prahalad.
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